Bacillariophyceae - Hemidiscaceae
Full reference: C. G. Ehrenberg. 1837. Nachricht des Hrn Agassiz in Neuchatel über den ebenfalls aus mikroskopichen Kiesel-Organismen gebildeten Polirschiefer von Oran in Afrika vor. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 59-61
Parent taxon: Hemidiscaceae according to G.R. Hasle and E.E. Syvertsen 1996
See also Abbott and Ernissee 1983, Andrews 1976 and Lakhanpal et al. 1976
Sister taxa: Araniscus, Azpeitia, Charcotiella, Hemidiscus, Roperia
Subtaxa: Actinocyclus actinochilus Actinocyclus ehrenbergii Actinocyclus ellipticus Actinocyclus ingens Actinocyclus octonarius Actinocyclus tenellus
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (10 collections), North Pacific (19)
• Brunhes of North Pacific (2)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (96), North Pacific (789), South Atlantic (3), South Pacific (2), Southern Ocean (115), United States (1: California)
• C2 of North Pacific (4)
• Neodenticula koizumii of North Pacific (1)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (42)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of North Pacific (9), Southern Ocean (8)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (25), Japan (2), North Pacific (115), Southern Ocean (92)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (9)
• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (6), Southern Ocean (6)
• Miocene of Chile (1), Indian Ocean (62), Mexico (2), North Pacific (159), Southern Ocean (183), United States (2: Maryland, North Carolina)
• Neogene of India (1)
Total: 1769 collections including 3141 occurrences
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